Statement of Resource Person, Dylan Tanner 6 November 2018 an algorithm to compute metrics that indicate corporate behavior. 4 At present InfluenceMap.org contains over 50,000 pieces of public documentation assessed and archived online. As such, our scores on the Carbon Major companies reflect actual patterns of behavior based on large samples of the evidence pieces referred to. Further details of InfluenceMap’s methodology are contained in the Appendix. The subsequent portion of this Statement contains evidence relevant to the Petition. 4) On the Urgent Need for Strong National Policy in Addressing Climate Change 1. InfluenceMap does not have climate science expertise but instead acknowledges the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as the best summary of scientific evidence about climate change. The IPCC, established by the United Nations Environment Program and World Meteorological Organization in 1988, issued its First Assessment Report Overview and Policymaker Summaries in 1990. This report concluded that human activities are resulting in global warming and encouraged countries to adopt domestic measures to limit climate change by adapting their economies.5 The findings moved global governments to the adopt the Kyoto Protocol in 1997, binding developed country parties to emission reduction targets with the requirement that they prepare policies to reduce emissions in their respective countries.6 2. The IPCC has since issued a series of reports reconfirming its initial findings and recommendations. For example, in its Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers7 the IPCC stresses the clarity of evidence that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions have led to the observed global warming since the mid-20th century, impacting “natural and human systems on all continents and across the oceans.” It further specifies the “high to very high risk of severe, widespread and irreversible impacts globally” in the future. These risks are noted to be present at between 1°C to 2°C of warming above pre-industrial levels but to increase substantially when warming exceeds 4 °C – projected as “more likely than not” if no additional mitigation efforts are taken. 3. The IPCC’s Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report further found that mitigation pathways to achieve limiting warming below 2°C all require substantial emissions reductions in the next few decades. Effective responses, it explains, “will depend on policies and measures across multiple 4 Our Methodology, InfluenceMap.org, accessed October 2018 5 First Assessment Report Overview and Policymaker Summaries, IPCC, 1990 6 What is the Kyoto Protcol?, UNFCCC.int, accessed October 2018 7 Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report, Summary for Policymakers, IPCC, 2014 3